Re: [gentoo-user] Debian just voted in systemd for default init system in jessie

2014-02-19 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tue, February 18, 2014 15:37, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 3:54 AM, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: As I do not have systemd installed on any machine, I can't check the man-pages. They are online [1]. Useful, but not necessary for this discussion. But, if

Re: [gentoo-user] Debian just voted in systemd for default init system in jessie

2014-02-19 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tue, February 18, 2014 18:12, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 10:36 AM, Andrew Savchenko birc...@gmail.com wrote: [...] Every decent project has QA and unit tests one way or another. But the larger project is, the more bugs it has. And I do not want bugs in PID 1,

Re: [gentoo-user] Debian just voted in systemd for default init system in jessie

2014-02-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 19 Feb 2014 01:04:14 -0600, Daniel Campbell wrote: Or to create a non-systemd profile :) For such a profile to be legitimate, systemd would have to be chosen as the default. Quite the opposite, to have a separate systemd profile would mean that systemd was not the default,

Re: [gentoo-user] Debian just voted in systemd for default init system in jessie

2014-02-19 Thread Gevisz
On Wed, 19 Feb 2014 01:04:14 -0600 Daniel Campbell li...@sporkbox.us wrote: On 02/18/2014 12:14 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 12:07 PM, Andrew Savchenko birc...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 18 Feb 2014 11:22:23 -0600 Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: Yet again, I respect

[gentoo-user] flickering thunderbird and firefox

2014-02-19 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
For a week or so I see flickering applications here. I thought it would help to upgrade nvidia-drivers but even todays update didn't help. I rebuilt thunderbird-24.3.0 and nvidia-drivers-334.16-r7 ... I also didn't find anything matching at bgo. This is gnome-3.10, I know, masked stuff ... but

Re: [gentoo-user] Debian just voted in systemd for default init system in jessie

2014-02-19 Thread thegeezer
On 02/19/2014 09:06 AM, Gevisz wrote: On Wed, 19 Feb 2014 01:04:14 -0600 Daniel Campbell li...@sporkbox.us wrote: On 02/18/2014 12:14 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 12:07 PM, Andrew Savchenko birc...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 18 Feb 2014 11:22:23 -0600 Canek Peláez

Re: [gentoo-user] flickering thunderbird and firefox

2014-02-19 Thread Dale
Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: For a week or so I see flickering applications here. I thought it would help to upgrade nvidia-drivers but even todays update didn't help. I rebuilt thunderbird-24.3.0 and nvidia-drivers-334.16-r7 ... I also didn't find anything matching at bgo. This is

Re: [gentoo-user] flickering thunderbird and firefox

2014-02-19 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 19.02.2014 11:27, schrieb Dale: I don't recall upgrading my Nvidia drives with the last update but Firefox did upgrade. I notice some weird stuff going on to but not sure of the cause yet. It may be Firefox since that seems to be all that is affected here. All the other programs work

Re: [gentoo-user] Debian just voted in systemd for default init system in jessie

2014-02-19 Thread Daniel Campbell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/19/2014 03:02 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 19 Feb 2014 01:04:14 -0600, Daniel Campbell wrote: Or to create a non-systemd profile :) For such a profile to be legitimate, systemd would have to be chosen as the default. Quite the

Re: [gentoo-user] Debian just voted in systemd for default init system in jessie

2014-02-19 Thread Gevisz
On Tue, 18 Feb 2014 22:53:12 +0400 the the.gu...@mail.ru wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 02/18/14 17:56, Gevisz wrote: On Mon, 17 Feb 2014 23:30:42 -0600 Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 8:05 PM, Gevisz gev...@gmail.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Debian just voted in systemd for default init system in jessie

2014-02-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 19 Feb 2014 04:34:35 -0600, Daniel Campbell wrote: How is putting systemd setting in a profile that a user has to consciously choose to use forcing anything on anyone? Profiles are the essence of choice but it appears you only want the choices you approve of to be available.

Re: [gentoo-user] Debian just voted in systemd for default init system in jessie

2014-02-19 Thread Daniel Campbell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/19/2014 04:50 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 19 Feb 2014 04:34:35 -0600, Daniel Campbell wrote: How is putting systemd setting in a profile that a user has to consciously choose to use forcing anything on anyone? Profiles are the

Re: [gentoo-user] Debian just voted in systemd for default init system in jessie

2014-02-19 Thread Andrew Savchenko
On Wed, 19 Feb 2014 10:19:43 + thegeezer wrote: [...] For all this talk about technical details, nobody seems to notice the marketing A few people including myself have noted it earlier. that's going on and frankly it disgusts me. And me too. I have to confess that it does

Re: [gentoo-user] Debian just voted in systemd for default init system in jessie

2014-02-19 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2014-02-19 2:04 AM, Daniel Campbell li...@sporkbox.us wrote: For such a profile to be legitimate, systemd would have to be chosen as the default. Ridiculous. Forget about Canek's rant... This is about *choice*. Also, I would argue the *opposite of what Canek is saying in this last rant...

Re: [gentoo-user] Debian just voted in systemd for default init system in jessie

2014-02-19 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2014-02-18 4:05 PM, Sebastian Beßler sebast...@darkmetatron.de wrote: First I thought that with systemd I have to use all the things shipped with systemd like journald (which I don't like because I think that a binary file for syslogs is just broken) so I looked into the config files of

[gentoo-user] Re: flickering thunderbird and firefox

2014-02-19 Thread walt
On 02/19/2014 01:55 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: For a week or so I see flickering applications here. I thought it would help to upgrade nvidia-drivers but even todays update didn't help. I rebuilt thunderbird-24.3.0 and nvidia-drivers-334.16-r7 ... I also didn't find anything

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: flickering thunderbird and firefox

2014-02-19 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 19.02.2014 14:40, schrieb walt: On 02/19/2014 01:55 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: For a week or so I see flickering applications here. I thought it would help to upgrade nvidia-drivers but even todays update didn't help. I rebuilt thunderbird-24.3.0 and nvidia-drivers-334.16-r7 ... I

[gentoo-user] Why WordPress is masked?

2014-02-19 Thread Gevisz
I was recently told that I will have to use WordPress to do some translation job. After emerge --search wordpress, I have found that this package is currently masked (at least for amd64 architecture). The same says https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/WordPress Earlier, in this mailing list, I was told

Re: [gentoo-user] Why WordPress is masked?

2014-02-19 Thread Andrew Savchenko
Hi, On Wed, 19 Feb 2014 16:54:12 +0200 Gevisz wrote: After emerge --search wordpress, I have found that this package is currently masked (at least for amd64 architecture). The same says https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/WordPress Earlier, in this mailing list, I was told that I can see the

Re: [gentoo-user] Why WordPress is masked?

2014-02-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 19/02/2014 16:54, Gevisz wrote: I was recently told that I will have to use WordPress to do some translation job. After emerge --search wordpress, I have found that this package is currently masked (at least for amd64 architecture). The same says https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/WordPress

Re: [gentoo-user] flickering thunderbird and firefox

2014-02-19 Thread Stroller
On Wed, 19 February 2014, at 1:57 pm, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: ... btw: my thinkpads don't show this behavior. Same gnome, kernel, thunderbird, but intel-based graphics. So it smells like nvidia ... What have you done to rule out hardware? Stroller.

Re: [gentoo-user] flickering thunderbird and firefox

2014-02-19 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 19.02.2014 16:57, schrieb Stroller: On Wed, 19 February 2014, at 1:57 pm, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: ... btw: my thinkpads don't show this behavior. Same gnome, kernel, thunderbird, but intel-based graphics. So it smells like nvidia ... What have you done to rule out

Re: [gentoo-user] flickering thunderbird and firefox

2014-02-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 19/02/2014 18:38, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 19.02.2014 16:57, schrieb Stroller: On Wed, 19 February 2014, at 1:57 pm, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: ... btw: my thinkpads don't show this behavior. Same gnome, kernel, thunderbird, but intel-based graphics. So it smells

Re: [gentoo-user] Debian just voted in systemd for default init system in jessie

2014-02-19 Thread Sebastian Beßler
On 19.02.2014 09:50, J. Roeleveld wrote: Additionally, the use of tail -f and grep allows me to check the logs real-time for debugging purposes. Having to use a seperate tool that converts some proprietary binary format to human readable/scriptable single-line logs makes no sense. This is

Re: [gentoo-user] Debian just voted in systemd for default init system in jessie

2014-02-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 19 Feb 2014 04:54:08 -0600, Daniel Campbell wrote: There are technical arguments for and against systemd, which is why this thread was started, rhetoric about forcing default profiles on people when there is no such thing as a default profile only serve to cloud the real issues.

Re: [gentoo-user] flickering thunderbird and firefox

2014-02-19 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 19.02.2014 20:02, schrieb Alan McKinnon: Yes, it can. But not in the obvious way. Video cards and GPUs are complex devices implementing numerous features. It is possible that your GPU/video card hardware is broken wrt one or a few of these features and Mozilla apps are the only ones you

Re: [gentoo-user] Why WordPress is masked?

2014-02-19 Thread Gevisz
On Wed, 19 Feb 2014 17:18:49 +0200 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 19/02/2014 16:54, Gevisz wrote: I was recently told that I will have to use WordPress to do some translation job. After emerge --search wordpress, I have found that this package is currently masked

Re: [gentoo-user] Why WordPress is masked?

2014-02-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 19/02/2014 23:38, Gevisz wrote: I doubt it does what you apear to think it does. vimpress is a wordpress editing tool running in the vim editor. It connects to a wordpress blog and let's you do the edits in vim instead of some other editing tool. But you still need to have access to a

[gentoo-user] EFI-based bootloader for BIOS-based computers (?)

2014-02-19 Thread walt
I just spotted that phrase in the sourceforge newsletter: http://sourceforge.net/projects/cloverefiboot/ and it seems to me like an oxymoron. If that phrase makes logical sense then my definitions of 'BIOS' and 'EFI' need the latest updates :) Until now I thought that EFI is a recent

[gentoo-user] Fwd: How about the gentoo server or cluster in production environment?

2014-02-19 Thread Franklin Wang
and what about slackware for server? Original Message Subject:How about the gentoo server or cluster in production environment? Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 09:41:28 +0800 From: Franklin Wang touch2...@gmail.com To: gentoo-ser...@lists.gentoo.org,

Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: How about the gentoo server or cluster in production environment?

2014-02-19 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On 20 Feb 2014 05:12, Franklin Wang touch2...@gmail.com wrote: and what about slackware for server? Original Message Subject: How about the gentoo server or cluster in production environment? Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 09:41:28 +0800 From: Franklin Wang touch2...@gmail.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: How about the gentoo server or cluster in production environment?

2014-02-19 Thread Franklin Wang
Maybe it's intresting, although I prefer to use red hat, suse or ubuntu in datacenter as Google. Slackware servers're not very poppular here On 2014年02月20日 08:14, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: On 20 Feb 2014 05:12, Franklin Wang touch2...@gmail.com mailto:touch2...@gmail.com wrote: and what

Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: How about the gentoo server or cluster in production environment?

2014-02-19 Thread Facundo Curti
I think a more stable distro is better for production. My choice is debian. I think you cant find nothing more stable that debian... Gentoo makes the best server os because it's a custom built os where the admin knows each and every aspect of the os. This is true, but gentoo is a little unstable

Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: How about the gentoo server or cluster in production environment?

2014-02-19 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On 20 Feb 2014 06:23, Facundo Curti facu.cu...@gmail.com wrote: I think a more stable distro is better for production. My choice is debian. I think you cant find nothing more stable that debian... Gentoo makes the best server os because it's a custom built os where the admin knows each and

Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: How about the gentoo server or cluster in production environment?

2014-02-19 Thread Franklin Wang
Debian's powerful and stable, and I like apt very much. Gentoo and arch can be used for soho. Google uses red hat in datacenter with a customized kernel, and facebook started the project of open compute. are several RISC processors going to die? On 2014年02月20日

[gentoo-user] Re: EFI-based bootloader for BIOS-based computers (?)

2014-02-19 Thread eroen
On Wed, 19 Feb 2014 15:39:51 -0800, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: I just spotted that phrase in the sourceforge newsletter: http://sourceforge.net/projects/cloverefiboot/ and it seems to me like an oxymoron. If that phrase makes logical sense then my definitions of 'BIOS' and 'EFI' need

Re: [gentoo-user] Debian just voted in systemd for default init system in jessie

2014-02-19 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 7:57 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2014-02-18 4:05 PM, Sebastian Beßler sebast...@darkmetatron.de wrote: First I thought that with systemd I have to use all the things shipped with systemd like journald (which I don't like because I think that a

Re: [gentoo-user] flickering thunderbird and firefox

2014-02-19 Thread Stroller
On Wed, 19 February 2014, at 4:38 pm, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: ... What have you done to rule out hardware? nothing. I think hardware would not make only specific apps/windows fail, right? At least it doesn't sound very likely to me ... Sorry, didn't fully read your

Re: [gentoo-user] Debian just voted in systemd for default init system in jessie

2014-02-19 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 2:50 AM, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Tue, February 18, 2014 15:37, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 3:54 AM, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: As I do not have systemd installed on any machine, I can't check the man-pages. They

Re: [gentoo-user] Debian just voted in systemd for default init system in jessie

2014-02-19 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 3:00 AM, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Tue, February 18, 2014 18:12, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: [ snip ] Of course the larger a project is the *potential* number of bugs increases, but so what? With enough developers, users and testers, all bugs are

Re: [gentoo-user] Debian just voted in systemd for default init system in jessie

2014-02-19 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 6:38 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2014-02-19 2:04 AM, Daniel Campbell li...@sporkbox.us wrote: For such a profile to be legitimate, systemd would have to be chosen as the default. Ridiculous. Forget about Canek's rant... This is about *choice*.